Re: [Asrg] VPNs

der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> Tue, 07 July 2009 07:10 UTC

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> The overwhelming majority of mail I am offered by the Gmail outbounds
> is spam.  Google has played games with how they will accept abuse
> reports, giving the appearance of not really wanting them.

Why should they care?

> There is very little risk to them of missing 95% of their outbound
> spam, as long as they never drop legitimate outbound mail and keep
> their outbound legitimate mail volume large enough that it is hard
> for many sites to treat their mail as presumptive spam.

As long as their big recipients give them a free pass on their spam
spewage because of the large number of human shields, I see no reason
why it makes any sense for them to care about the spam they emit.

Oh, and, as long as no responsibility comes with the resources they are
granted authority over, of course, but that's given in today's net.

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